Crime scene: between the ears
Between the ears is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film was produced by WDR and Müller & Seelig Filmproduktion and was broadcast for the first time on Sunday, September 18, 2011 on Das Erste . It is the 20th case of the investigative duo Thiel and Boerne from Münster .
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While Frank Thiel is looking forward to the cup game between FC St. Pauli and FC Bayern Munich , his father fishes a severed foot from the Dortmund-Ems Canal while fishing in Münster at night . Forensic doctor Boerne finds out that the foot must be the body part of a dead woman. Their identity can also be clarified quickly: It is Boerne's childhood friend Susanne Clemens.
The investigation leads Thiel to the TVC Münster tennis club , where Susanne last worked. Susanne's office there had recently been broken into. When Thiel wanted to question the president of the club, the gravel pit owner Albrecht Heck, it turned out that, in addition to him, Nadine Petri, a great tennis talent, and her ambitious parents knew the dead woman.
Next, Thiel wants to interrogate the members of the organized crime- related and misogynistic motorcycle gang Wotan Wolves , who must have had something to do with Susanne. Meanwhile, while fishing again at night, Herbert Thiel finds the body of Susanne Clemens. Boerne states that the cause of death must have been drowning . However, she was badly beaten a few days earlier. There is also a striking tattoo on Susanne's body. This feature leads Thiel to the conclusion that the boyish Susanne, disguised as a man, found entry into the Wotan Wolves and, with her knowledge of their criminal activities, finally blackmailed her in order to be able to pay the care costs for her father. The Wolves admit that they beat up Susanne, but deny the murder.
While Professor Boerne is preparing to be awarded a science prize, Thiel asks him about the results of the forensic medical examination. It turns out that Susanne apparently ingested testosterone in large quantities to look more manly. Her father confirms his daughter's transsexual tendencies. When Thiel then looked again for traces in Susanne's garage, he discovered a hidden chamber behind a shelf. Then Nadine Petri appears in the garage, and Thiel determines that Nadine knew about Susanne's double life and had a deep personal bond with the considerably older woman, but Thiel can only speculate about her nature. After Nadine left, Thiel discovered a self-burned DVD behind a poster. At home he looks at them: You can see Susanne and Nadine talking. Susanne makes Nadine stand by her intersexuality . Thiel now suspects that Susanne did not blackmail the Wolves, but Nadine's family.
After a night of drinking with Boerne, Thiel appears again at the tennis club to report to Nadine about the DVD and to check his hypothesis. However, only her parents say that Susanne actually committed the blackmail. For details, Thiel should contact Heck, who also acts as Nadine's manager. Furthermore, the Petris provide the inspector with an expert opinion that allegedly proves that Nadine is a perfectly normal woman. As alibis, they pretend to have analyzed tennis games at the time of the crime or to have been to the opera. The subsequent interrogation of Heck shows that he wanted to have been in the brothel at the time of the crime.
Since Thiel found out with a trick that Nadine wants to meet her friend, the medical student Sven, in the hospital that evening, he appears there and determines that the two question the gynecologist's report on their gender and on their own using an X-ray want to check. Thiel gets Boerne from a performance by Nabucco to give Nadine professional help. Meanwhile, Thiel hears the friend. Boerne's investigation then shows that Nadine is actually intersex; since she is genetically male, her tennis career is about to end. The report was forged.
The next day, on Nadeshda's initiative, the police found a motorcycle in the Dortmund-Ems Canal, at the point where Susanne Clemens was thrown into the water, anesthetized with strong sleeping pills . Nadeshda Thiel also informs that the gynecologist who prepared the fake report must be very familiar with Heck. Heck's gravel pit is on the brink of bankruptcy, and as Nadine's manager he has therefore secured 25 percent of her income.
Boerne and Frau Haller find gravel particles in Susanne's sinuses, which indicates Heck's gravel works, which is located near the canal. There is a noticeable chain as an indication. Sven is also traded as a suspect, and a search of his apartment reveals the computer that was stolen during the break-in at the tennis club. The interrogation of the young man shows that the chain that was found also belongs to him. However, he denies the murder and it cannot be proven. When the investigation threatened to end in a dead end, Boerne announced that during the examination of Nadine he found that she must also have taken the sleeping pill that Susanne had been given.
When Thiel got the inspiration from a sentence from the television commentator during the cup game that the murder must have been a kind of teamwork, he and Nadeshda checked the recordings of the surveillance camera of the opera parking garage, where Nadine Petri's mother claimed to have been at the time of the crime. It turns out that she left the opera for two hours. Thiel visits Nadine's family again, who are in the hospital, where Nadine is being treated for attempting self-mutilation. Thiel is the first to confront Nadine's brother with the fact that each member of the family only has an alibi for part of the night of the crime and they are all guilty together because everyone hoped to benefit from Nadine's expected tennis career, which Susanne stood in the way of her blackmail. The family admits Susanne's murder. Heck was an accomplice.
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reception
criticism
The reviews of Between the Ears were mostly mixed to slightly positive.
“In this jubilee“ crime scene ”, too, things are as fun as usual, which fortunately makes up for some of the weaknesses of the actual criminal case. [...] The further action and, above all, the resolution of this classic “Who was it?” - criminal case then seems very constructed and also overloaded thematically. And the question that everything later revolves around here (“When is a woman a woman?”) Is dealt with very superficially, but makes for a really funny running gag. [...] Some things are very simple. And simple, even if well done, is this "crime scene", which precisely meets the expectations of the numerous friends of the investigative duo Thiel / Boerne, including funny squabbles, witty ideas and carefully placed little gags. "
“A tough biker has been murdered. Thiel determined between the rocker and tennis scene. There he comes across many suspects & a good motive: murder in response to extortion. Intersexuality haunts the 20th “Tatort” from Münster as MacGuffin . Nice, winking interludes in a half-hearted, below-average crime thriller. "
“Despite a number of strengths in detail, the twentieth“ Tatort ”from Münster is not convincing overall. For some time now, the Sunday evening thriller has discovered competitive sport as a setting and has given equal gender equality to the national soccer teams of women and men. And just a few weeks ago, Edgar Selge embodied a transsexual in Cologne's “Tatort” in a touching, restrained and pathetic way. Now it should be about intersexuality in competitive sport. Not a bad idea. But apparently it doesn't fit in with Münster. There you have nothing but punch lines between your ears. That's enough for an entertaining evening. But it's not enough for such a topic. "
"[...] Then follows the exchange of blows between the self-loving Boerne, his small-stature assistant Alberich and Thiel. You know it, you like it, also and precisely because the people of Münster rarely get the state-relevant issues and issues of concern written into the script. But this time a serious topic creeps in in triple steps: intersexuality. Based on the murder victim, Boerne's school friend Susanne, and the young tennis player Nadine Petri (Anna Bullards), it is shown how people get on who are born with characteristics of both sexes. And what it is like to be a woman if you would like to be a man. And while this topic made the Cologne "Tatort" very difficult two weeks ago, the screenwriters Thorsten Wettcke and Christoph Silber manage to maintain the ease without drifting into tastelessness, at best touching it briefly. When the line of level is in sight, the viewer is torn out of the hilarity, just like Commissioner Thiel several times from the football game that has since been recorded. Axel Prahl in particular succeeds in alternating between puns and seriousness. "
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Between the ears on September 18, 2011, was seen by a total of 10.40 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 28.8% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 3.53 million viewers and a market share of 22.8% were achieved.
In Austria, 719,000 viewers and a 24 percent market share were achieved.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the crime scene: Between the ears . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ HAZ.de: Big tennis at the "Tatort - Between the Ears" , accessed on September 19, 2011.
- ↑ tittelbach.tv: “Tatort - Between the Ears” series , accessed on September 19, 2011.
- ↑ Faz.net: The next punch line is certain to come , accessed on September 19, 2011.
- ↑ stern.de: A murder case for team players , accessed on September 19, 2011.
- ↑ Jürgen Kirsch: Primetime check: Sunday, September 18, 2011. (No longer available online. ) Quotemeter.de , September 19, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 19, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ mediaresearch.orf.at. (No longer available online.) ORF , September 18, 2011, archived from the original on October 20, 2013 ; Retrieved October 17, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Between the ears in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Between the ears in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of Between the Ears on the ARD website
- Between the ears at the crime scene fundus
- Between the ears at Tatort-Fans.de
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